<p>My daughter is in 11th grade right now. She has been an A-grade student throughout her life. She is very keen in pursuing her higher studies to become a medical doctor. She dreams to do it through the PLME program at Brown’s Alpert Medical School. Please let me know what does she need to do to fulfill her dream! Here are some of her academic data points:
In her March’11 SAT, she has scored 2290 - Math 800, Critical Reading 780, Writing*710.
She is also maintaining an unweighted GPA of 3.95 and weighted GPA of 4.55 so far.
She is in top 1% in her graduating class, based on her GPA.
She has already taken four AP courses.
*In 10th grade: Calculus A/B and Physics B
*In 11th grade: Calculus B/C and Chemistry
*Next year she is taking: Biology, Psychology, Computer Science, Statistics, and Spanish Language
She has been volunteering three hours every week at the Princeton Hospital for the last six months in direct patient care.
She is also a key member of various clubs, e.g. FIRST Robotics, Model UN, Model Congress, Math Olympiad.
She has been accepted in the National Honors Society for next year.</p>
<p>I would really appreciate it if you could tell me how her chances are to get admitted into this prestigious program. Also, it would greatly help if you can guide us as to what she may do to improve her chances.</p>
<p>Hi , I am new to this forum. My daughter is in 9th grade and is interested in becoming a physician. She is interested in Brown University. Any sugestions on what she should do? Right now, she is taking Algebra II honors, Biology, Chemistry. She is maintaining A grade so far.</p>
<p>Oncmom: as I said to Sharmsa1, this isn’t the right forum for questions about PLME. This forum is meant for people who will be graduating from Brown in 2012.</p>
<p>As for your question, there’s not much she can do right now besides keep her grades up and do things that interest her.</p>
<p>I have watched the PLME applicants over many years, as I primarily interview those applicants. I graduated from the program many years ago (when it was called MedSci) and have students I know closely who have applied.
Many of my observations on admission are found in other places.
Some things I can tell you that you may or may not know:</p>
<p>One of the first things I will tell you is that PLME accepted students, as a whole, are likely to be very self directed students. They have researched the program well, (on their own, not being led by their parents), and they pursue their desire to become future doctors the same way.
They may not be the valedictorian of their class, or the salutatorian even (although many are) but they almost all are in the top 5% of their class if from a highly competitive school, and top 3% if from a big school.
They almost always have had a longitudinal in-depth experience in their high school years in something to do with medicine. This might be research (the most common), hospital volunteering, EMS, or sometimes even help caring for an ill family member.
They have board scores that will get them into Brown. (and a lot have great board scores, but perfect scores are not the primary ticket in.)
They want to go to Brown, not just “any combined program”.
They write great essays.
They are usually the type of person who somehow communicates themselves in a way that your impression of them is “this person will make the kind of doctor I would like to have in the future”.
As you know if you have read the admission statistics, the admit rate is so low that some of it may be just chance. Not who gets in, but who gets rejected.
So, Good Luck!</p>